DCFD Dominican Style

While the whole crew did not have the opportunity to join, i thought i'd still share my pictures and thoughts of the food at the Sirenis resort, punta cana, dominican republic.

What better place for a DCFD member to visit than a place the provides all the food and alcohol you want to drink. Of course, its not quite that simple, but if you're not too picky, thats exactly what you get.

I couldn't drink as much as i would've liked, mostly due to oversweet drinks and not the tastiest of beer or wine, but i had my share. Dining on haute cuisine has its price, and that price is a ridiculous over indulgence at all-inclusive resorts.

But as i said, the food was pretty good. Heres a typical breakfast (at the buffet):




Heres some typical lunches - these were served at the poolside restaurants, which at night served as the "mexican" and "steakhouse" a la cartes:




I didn't get any decent pics of the generic dinner buffet foods, but pretty decent stuff. One night they had lobster (carribean lobster of course), which was decent, and shrimps (head-on) another night was good too. Most nights they'd have a roast of some sort, and a pasta buffet, amidst a salad station (lettuce, tomatos, cukes, and misc prep'd salads), dessert station, and a bunch of hot meals. There was 2 main buffet restaurants in this place, and for dinner, one side was "international" and the other was "dominican". Of course, we fancied the dominican side to get a flavour of local stuff, however most nights the two sides featured nearly identical samplings. But it was fun to eat app's or even a whole meal at one side, then labourously lumber over to the other side to be greeted as if we were famished!!

Heres a sampling from the mexican restaurant. The first pic is an app, the 2nd my main, fish (you'd never guess). Was the first and only avacado i had during the trip, pretty good, i'll assume they must import them.



Steakhouse, definitely the worst meal, pork back ribs (mostly fat):


And "Jade", the Japanese restaurant, most fun, and likely the tastiest food. It started out with all sitting down, then directed at the buffet, where i got the following plate:


Then our chef went on to prepare everything else, and doused EVERYTHING with an overabundance of soy sauce, which i'm pretty sure doesn't happen even at Japanese village (please correct me if i'm wrong).



All in all, the food i got from this 4 star resort was pretty decent, no complaints, but you would definitely get sick of the *same* lettuce, the *same* sauces, and the *same* breakfasts/lunches after more than a week. They also had a "gourmet" restaurant that charded 35$ a head, the only add on food item, and we did not partake.